Wolfsburg in German Lower Saxony is by now mainly known for cars, faked exhaust values and a football club that is pretty successful, thanks to those cars… But there’s hope for the town. This hope is a young Death Metal three piece with the moniker CRYPTIC BROOD. The year 2013 saw not only the formation […]
Meet your Doom Metal with CRYPT SERMON from Philadelphia. This fairly new five piece consists of musicians who are or were around in various not that well known local extreme Metal bands like TRENCHROT or UNREST, to name just a few. In 2013, they joint forces to play out their fascination for Doom Metal. After […]
“Codex Perfida” is a demo I’m aware of since its release almost one year ago but I somehow never really understood its content because of simply not paying as much attention to it as required. After hearing all kinds of praising on the internet after its release I checked it out on Bandcamp but wasn’t […]
In the middle of 2011 "Never After – The Complete Recordings” was released by To The Death Records where the six demos of this late talented Swedish band were featured. These were "Fleshwaste” (1992), "In Hate…” (1992), "Soul Enchantment” (1992), "Dark” (1993), "Demo 1993” (1993) and "A Touch Of The Burning Red Sunset” (Demo 1994). […]
With the deluge of dark and occult Death Metal growing more intense by the day, it is refreshing to find a band that adheres to a simple philosophy of a pure indulgence in death and sickness. Having released an extraordinarily competent demo last year on Detest Records, Finland’s SWALLOWED have moved forward in their morbid […]
In the context of contemporary Metal (and music in general for that matter) it has become increasingly rare to hear something that stands out as truly unique and distinctive. Too often the blame for this is placed upon the bands that flood the scene with their derivative drivel that in no way serves to advance […]
WOMBBATH is a well known Swedish Death Metal band for those into the classic early 90s era. They released a couple of recordings like the now classic "Internal Caustic Torments" debut full-length in 1993. However after one more EP and a change in style they just split. After 20 years they decided to come back […]
VASTUM from San Francisco, California unearthed in 2009, and have since then, or at least since 2011 when they released their first sound "Carnal Law", been spewing forth dark and unrelentless Death Metal, grim noisy riffs, midtempo punishing drumming, a low low rumbling bass, grim guttural growls and a raw production that pushes forth the […]
One advantage of getting older is the increasing ability to recognize or associate connections and contexts. The debut by this US-based trio not only aroused my attention by reason of the title but also the band’s name ringed a few warning bells. Some 20 years ago a band called DISRUPT released the one and only […]
If someone would have passed me this release without any information on the band, I would never ever recognized that this is the same band that once released two demos in the vein of classical Scandinavian old school Death Metal some years ago. "Lunarterial" is everything else, but for sure it is not your average […]